ALL IT TAKES (episode 2)

Helen's baby was just going to be six months old when she got back from an errand one day to meet a note on the table in the sitting. It had come from her husband? With trembling hands she opened the letter and her fears became real. She skipped down to the last lines of the letter, he eyes dropped on the heavy words. "I'm sorry... I have to go... I don't love you anymore. I am gone ". Pain and anger suffocated her as she fell into the closest seat. "Just like that? Just a note" she thought to herself. He was living her with the children with no explanations whatsoever but a flimsy note.. She thought it would be a dream but she never woke up from that dream.
He had left the marriage on a swing there was no divorce, no annulment. This was the most cruel thing he could do to her. It was as though her world came crashing down before her. How would she face the look people would throw at her when they get to know she was a single parent. The letter was the last she heard of him ever again.
The first two months were hell for her. So many nights sleep disappeared from her eyes. How could she sleep with so much on her and if there were few nights she actually did sleep it was because she cried herself to sleep.
It has been twenty-four years now and though the pain is now very slight, her pride and joy is that she has been able to raise her children into the beautiful women they are today. She has been a father to them. She had protected them into adulthood and she will until the day she died. She would protect them from men like their father.

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